High Court over its policy of placing trans women in women’s prisons.FDJ, a female prisoner who cannot be named, claims she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate (GRC).Her lawyers argue the MoJ’s policy of allocating trans inmates to prisons based on their declared gender identity unlawfully discriminates against women.
FDJ is also challenging separate measures in relation to a ‘high-risk trans prisoner unit’ at HMP Downview in Surrey, which was created in March 2019.The MoJ argues that both policies pursue legitimate aims, including ‘facilitating the rights of transgender people to live in and as their acquired gender (and) protecting transgender people’s mental and physical health’.The case.